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Log   /lɔg/   Listen
Log

noun
1.
A segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches.
2.
The exponent required to produce a given number.  Synonym: logarithm.
3.
A written record of messages sent or received.  "An email log"
4.
A written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane).
5.
Measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water.
verb
(past & past part. logged; pres. part. logging)
1.
Enter into a log, as on ships and planes.
2.
Cut lumber, as in woods and forests.  Synonym: lumber.



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"Log" Quotes from Famous Books



... with more of a desired or desirable character than others. As fighter, thinker or preacher he has made the history of man. A dozen million common men did not invent the wheel; it was one aboriginal genius who played with power and saw that the rolling log might transport his goods. The shadow may have interested in a mild way every contemporary and ancestor of the one who discovered that it moved regularly with the sun. And when a group is confronted ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson
... habit of reading American newspapers, and talking with American visitors, will be both new and interesting—we should hope stimulative—to the majority of our countrymen. We shall fulfil a duty, and confer benefit as well as pleasure, by picking out of the captain's log-book some of the choicest samples of Uncle Sam's 'cuteness, which will serve to shew, at the same time, the progress and prospects ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 - Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852 • Various
... and I rode over one evening to call on General Joe Hooker, commanding the 20th Army Corps. He occupied a small log hut in the Wauhatchie Valley, near Lookout Mountain and not far from the Tennessee river. He received us with great courtesy, and when he learned that we were officers in a colored regiment, congratulated us on our ...
— The Black Phalanx - African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the - War of 1812, and the Civil War • Joseph T. Wilson
... were discontented because they had no one to rule over them: so they sent a deputation to Jupiter to ask him to give them a King. Jupiter, despising the folly of their request, cast a log into the pool where they lived, and said that that should be their King. The Frogs were terrified at first by the splash, and scuttled away into the deepest parts of the pool; but by and by, when they saw that the log remained ...
— Aesop's Fables • Aesop
... "Look up the log slate, for I suppose they have made the entries, and when we have run eighty knots from the station, keep a sharp lookout for the land. Now I will go to my cabin, and find the envelope that contains the ...
— Stand By The Union - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray--Afloat • Oliver Optic


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